Defense

NASA’s Kepler mission has archived for the science community new raw data from a sustained and just-concluded Trappist-1 observing campaign using the exoplanet-seeking space telescope.

Lawmakers have given the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System program until March 2018 to wrap up pre-development studies and technology maturation work.

Leading consumer UAV manufacturer DJI is pushing for a higher weight limit of 2.2 kg (4.8 lb.) below which small unmanned aircraft systems are considered relatively harmless and do not require registration and are only lightly regulated.

The HASC's proposed $640 billion military base budget for fiscal 2018 includes $11 billion for more Lockheed Martin F-35s and Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornets.

Leonardo has begun studies into a radically updated version of its best-selling AW139 twin-engine medium helicopter.

ILS has uncovered a problem with a component in a second-stage engine that delayed the launch of the Echostar XXI satellite on the Proton Breeze M rocket in December, company President Kirk Pysher says.

Hybrid Air Vehicles has made design changes to the Airlander 10, including the ability to recover the mooring line after release, following the heavy landing at the end of the hybrid airship’s second flight in August 2016.

A top U.S. Air Force general says the so-called OCX program is still on rocky ground.

Despite the visit, Indonesian officials played down expectations that an order for the airlifter was imminent.

Leonardo looks to bolster its existing core business of electro-optical and infrared sensors and systems with the acquisition, and ride business growth in new U.S. military aircraft survivability systems.

The U.S. Navy is finishing up testing of a 100% biofuel aimed a certifying the alternative to petroleum-based JP-5 jet fuel for use across all its fleets of turbine-powered aircraft.

Sikorsky, Metro Aviation and Petroleum Helicopters have developed a way of streaming health and usage monitoring system data off a helicopter so it can be used for urgent analysis.

Vector Aerospace, that has facilities in South African and Kenya, has extended its tradition of serving the United States armed forces by providing support for the Airbus UH-72A Lakota.

Germany buys three MQ-4 Tritons, U.S. begins THAAD deployment to South Korea, Delta IV engine problem delays U.S. Air Force Launch

Link 16, electronic countermeasures and state-of-the-art self-defense systems might be in 60-year-old Stratotanker's future.

The vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says Russia’s new land-based cruise missile puts at risk “most of our facilities in Europe."

The ORS-8 satellite, approved in February, is planned for launch in 2020-21.

NASA’s Strategic Aerosol Gas Experiment III is ready for a 90-day activation and checkout session aboard the International Space Station.

Despite the promise of new economic opportunity, there are mounting obstacles to low Earth orbit prosperity, a U.S. researcher says.

The parent company of British Airways, Iberia, Vueling and Aer Lingus, is set to be the launch customer of Inmarsat’s European Aviation Network high-speed in-flight broadband service.

Germany has selected the Northrop Grumman MQ-4 Triton high-altitude, long-endurance UAV as a platform for signals intelligence gathering.

MD Helicopters has finally revealed that its MD6XX development will be an advanced derivative of its MD600N single-engine light helicopter.

Dassault Aviation expects the business jet market to remain weak in 2017, with a gradual recovery likely to begin in 2018, its CEO says.

Airbus will accelerate the development of the military version of its H160 medium twin-engine helicopter following the type’s selection for a significant joint French requirement.

UK company Aveillant is to supply radars to French air navigation services provider DSNA for use in a pilot program to counter small UAVs in a complex airport environment.